You're on the right track, and nuclear energy would be a potential interim "fix" for the current dilemma. However, at least in the U.S, there are problems as pointed out in that movie I cited. Nuclear facilities have at least one drawback, and that's that when they're not built properly, they pose a major health risk to everyone within 1000 km.

During my short time as a project engineer, responsible, among other things, for quality control on substantial municipally funded public works projects, I noted that officials who would never have been tempted by the $5000 bribe, routinely compromised away quality ultimately costing the taxpayers many tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for a bottle of liquor and a slap on the back.

This isn't the same as corruption in other countries, in some of which the government officials simply see bribes as part of their entitled compensation for their underpaid jobs. It does, however, pose a much more serious risk, in that, once an official is involved, he has to do all the same things he'd have done to conceal having accepted a bribe and provided quid pro quo. The resulting behaviors and practices, however, indicate a tremendous risk to the public when a huge power plant powered by extremely toxic products is involved.

Then, of course, there's the matter of the power wasted in the distribution grid. The only real way to mitigate the global warming crisis is to tackle the global warming, not just from the standpoint of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, but also by mitigating the warming itself that human activity causes. What electrical/mechanical/chemical processes do you bring about every day that cause waste energy to be given off as heat? Loss of those processes would be inconvenient, but devising ways of avoiding energy waste as heat would probably not be so inconvenient. Does anyone even bother with that.

What's the ratio of power generated at the power plant to power delivered to the end user? What's the ratio of power delivered to work done?

If energy conservation is purportedly being encouraged, why do large users and wasters of energy have to pay less per kWH than small users?

I think big-energy is selling us a bill of goods.

RE